This work in progress paper aims to contribute to the literature on the cognitive foundations of capability development. Extant research acknowledges that capabilities are rooted in taken for granted conventions that are both a source of distinctiveness but may potentially also give rise to...

This papers looks at the concept of sense to tackle management and organization science questions. It discusses the theoretical and methodological basis of the concept of sense to provide a new framework to study sense in organizational research. The interested of the new framework is tested in...

Three types of interactions – discursive, translating and based on experience – allowed actors to improvise consistently and manage the critical aspects of the 2003 French heat wave. Our study suggests that managers should help to generate these interactions during crisis response. It also...

This papers aims at understanding the role of sense when actors improvise during crisis. Literature about improvisation show little explanation of how individual improvisation becomes collective and coherent. The use of the concept of sense as a bridge between crisis and improvisation enable us...

La méthodologie proposée par la théorie enracinée permet dans une optique idéale de proposer des résultats généralisables et objectifs. Néanmoins, de nombreuses critiques sont adressées aux recherches basées sur cette méthode. Les principaux reproches sont le manque de rigueur dans...